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Somewhere in his first year of life, Micah noticed the moon. I'm doubtful that he understood that it was far away or that it was a sphere or that it orbited the earth. It was a beautiful mystery to him.
Somewhere between two and three, he noticed that the moon was out during the day. I'm not sure where he had learned it, but he had figured out that the moon created (I know, I know, reflected is the right answer) light. He questioned why the day wasn't brighter. He questioned why the moon was out early. It was still a mystery to him.
That same year, he figured out that the moon disappeared and that it took different shapes. The stories he created were bizarre and more complex from ages three to four: the moon was made of ice cream and it melted down into different shapes or maybe God ate pieces of it and then replenished it when it got empty; the moon was filled with flashlights and sometimes they burned out; the moon was really a black and white object and it looked more white as it moved in the sky. Regardless of the stories he developed, the moon was still a mystery to him.
Two nights ago, he asked if he could go outside and look at the moon. He stood on our patio table and studied it intently.
"Look. It's one big circle. Part of it is dark and part is white."
"Why do you think that is?"
"The light is all around it," he explained.
Not really. Not like a solar eclipse, but he was right. You could see the entire circle.
"There's a light shining on one side and there's not light on the rest," he explained.
"Where do you think the light comes from?"
"The sun already disappeared, so maybe it's God?"
"That's an idea."
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(Reuters) – Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri called on rebels in Syria to stop fighting each other as a faction linked to his group pushed rival insurgents from a northern town on Thursday.
The small but powerful al Qaeda-linked Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has been caught up in clashes with other insurgents in Syria in recent weeks, often triggered by disputes over authority and territory.
About 1,400 people have died in the infighting over the last 20 days, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday. Some 190 of them were civilians caught in the crossfire or executed, it said.
The internecine fighting is the worst to break out during the nearly three-year revolt against President Bashar al-Assad and has further divided an already fractured opposition.
Zawahri urged the rebels to set up a committee to sort out their differences, according to an audio recording released on Islamist websites.
"Our hearts and the hearts of the (Muslim) nation, which hangs its hopes on you, have bled for the infighting that has spread between the ranks of those waging jihad for Islam," Zawahri said in the five-minute recording.
"We call on all our brothers in all the jihadist groups … to work towards ending this sedition, which will lead to only God knows what," Zawahri said.
Reuters was unable independently to confirm the authenticity of the recording, but the voice bore a clear resemblance to that of Zawahri.
In northern Syria, where hardline Islamists have taken stretches of territory from government forces, ISIL fighters took full control of the town of Manbij, northeast of the commercial hub of Aleppo, the Observatory said.
The pro-opposition Observatory, which monitors developments in Syria through a network of activist, military and medical sources, said at least nine non-ISIL rebels were killed in the clashes, as well as a number of ISIL fighters.
The insurgent groups fighting ISIL range from relatively secular moderates to hardline Islamists, including the al Qaeda-aligned Nusra Front.
In April, the head of ISIL, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi tried to merge his group with the Nusra Front, defying orders from Zawahri and causing a rift.
The announcement angered the Nusra Front, which said it had not been informed, prompting Zawahri to step in, telling both to stop arguing and calling off the attempted merger.
The fissures have depleted rebel ranks and helped Assad's forces claw back territory around Aleppo.
They have also added a new layer of complexity to a conflict that has killed well over 100,000 people as government and opposition representatives meet for the first time at United Nations-brokered peace talks in Switzerland.
Syria's conflict began with peaceful protests against 40 years of Assad family rule and has descended into a sectarian conflict with the opposing sides armed and funded by Sunni Gulf Arab states and Shi'ite Iran.
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DIY: clipboard moodboard
We've all seen collages of postcards & small prints, taped in a cluster on walls but I feel like I've seen it so much, I wanted to do something a bit different.
I used this giant clipboard to collect inspirational images (some from my Pinterest) with magazine clippings and colors to make a bit of a moodboard for this month.
I'm really drawn to shades of grey with bits of warm gold. The gold washer is a threaded end cap I found at the hardware store while buying supplies for the DIY's from a couple weeks ago. The largest size they carried turned out to be the perfect size for a taper candle!
What colors/textures are inspiring you during this season?
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Gosh, I love gray with gold. Those shades really belong together. You speak my mind lady ; )ReplyDelete
i'm into little pops of pink! i strung a pink ribbon on my window today :)ReplyDelete
I love the idea of using a clipboard. Looks fantastic;)ReplyDelete
Nina xx
So inspirational! :)ReplyDelete
where is the clipboard from? I have been looking for one for a while now, but cant seem to find any places.
Hi sweety. May I use your photo on my blog? I´ll link back:)ReplyDelete
Looks so beautiful. I like the different postcards.ReplyDelete
The blushing girl drawing, where did you find that? I have been searching through your Pinterest, but i cannot seem to find it there (:ReplyDelete
Very inspiring! :) So lovely! :) :)ReplyDelete
By the way, where did you get the wonderful postcard quote from? Or is it selfdrawn/written?
Best wishes,
Look great, I have one but smaller, so I really like this idea.ReplyDelete
Have a great week!
I have been thinking of how I would like to create a mood board. I'm not sure how I would like to do it but this could be a killer way.ReplyDelete
Neat idea. I think this would be great for trying to draw inspiration for my watercolor painting class!ReplyDelete
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Jose Manuel Ferrero, the young Valencian designer and founder of estudi{H}ac practice has recently realised this family of white, large-scale lamps for the Spanish outdoor furniture specialists Vondom. Exhibited in September during the Feria Hábitat Valencia fair, the collection of sculptural, mushroom-like lights also provided an impressive focal point of a striking, site-specific outdoor installation 'Un Bosque de Luz' – Spanish for 'A Forest of Light' presented during the fair outside Hotel Ingles.
Made of polyethylene resin, the soft-glowing lamps feature a subtle diamond-pattern texture and employ the LED technology which allows the user to choose between seven different colour settings in either static or dynamic mode 'for a kaleidoscope of continuously changing colour.'
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I just created this LONG post about this:
At least 31 states are taking steps to teach alternatives to evolution. A CBS poll last November found 65 percent of Americans favor teaching creationism as well as evolution while 37 percent want creationism taught instead of evolution.
Fifty-five percent of Americans believe God created humans in their present form, the poll found.
And it's GONE. Blogger asked me to log in again, but didn't actually publish my post, and now it's GONE. GONE. And I don't have the patience to retype it all. Suffice it to say, I'm pissed.
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Just to let you know that happened to me at least once. There was an option to "rescue" the post back at the original page and I got most of it back. Don't know if that showed up, or would have helped, but next time it might (we all know there's going to be a next time because these things have it in for us - lol).
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A school teacher, diplomat and poet, Lucila Godoy Alcayaga was born on 7 April 1889 in the city of Vicuña, in the Elqui Valley, one of the areas of northern Chile that is currently home to some of the world's most modern telescopic observatories.
Partly inspired by her father Juan Jerome and her sister Emelina her literary inclination was evident from a young age, when she collaborated in the local press. Her teaching inclination was also evident in her work as a self-taught primary teacher, a career that she later studied and graduated in Santiago.
In 1913, Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío agreed to publish her creations in a magazine he issued in Paris. After winning an important contest in Chile with Sonetos de la Muerte, she finally adopted the pseudonym taken from her favorite poets: the Italian Gabriele D'Annunzio and French Frédéric Mistral.
Without abandoning her literary creation, Gabriela Mistral directed high schools in the cities of Punta Arenas, where she instituted, among other things, night school for adults, and Temuco, where she met a then young Naphtali Reyes Basoalto, who would later be acclaimed as Pablo Neruda.
While working in Mexico on the improvement of the educational system with philosopher José Vasconcelos, her book Desolación (Desolation) (1924) was edited by the Instituto de las Españas de Nueva York; and two years later her second collection of poems called Ternura (Tenderness), was released. She also made countless journeys around the United States, Europe and Latin America delivering conferences.
She was named in 1926 Adviser to the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation and settled in France, where she met intellectuals such as Paul Rivet and Miguel de Unamuno. It would be the first of many positions outside her country before being invested with a life-long consular position in 1935 by the Chilean authorities.
Mistral became the first writer in Latin America to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945, which would be followed by tributes around the world. Affected by diabetes and pancreatic cancer, she died in the United States in 1957, leaving her work Poema de Chile (Poem of Chile) practically ready for publication and a good part of her inheritance was donated to her nation's most disadvantaged children.


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{Wheels.19.1}: Ken Ken {probedubai} Mon, 04 Apr 2005 10:32:39 CDT (18 lines)
So I went again 2 put on some rims. Again faced the same problem that they wouldn't fit. The rims I had chosen were 100-120 somethin like tht, and I have a Ford Probe and they're 114 on them. I was very keen 2 get 'em, so this guy asked me y not do some welding on the bolts or i dunno where exactly, din quite understand wht he meant eitha. How unappropriate would tht be 2 have this weldin done 4 such kinda rims 2 fit. Imo I don't think it's a gd idea thinking of it, since I don't have any experience nor understood wht he meant, I need ur opionions in this matter. Could some1 kindly help me here, it ain't ez gettin rims here. Thanx
{Wheels.19.2}: Jil {rabbit} Mon, 04 Apr 2005 10:56:30 CDT (10 lines)
Welcome, Ken. I'm not really sure exactly what you're saying, although I think you mean that your rims are too wide for the vehicle and your friend wants to make the studs longer. Not a good deal. Get rims specifically made for the car. Not all aftermarket rim models are appropriate for every car. You'll need ones specifically made for your car, and with an offset for front-wheel-drive.
{Wheels.19.3}: Joseph Kang {jsk} Mon, 04 Apr 2005 11:17:42 CDT (4 lines)
I think his problem is that the rims bolt pattern ("offset" i think it's called) doesn't match his Probe's bolt pattern. Probably because the rims weren't specifically sold as compatible with his car. Not sure how you'd get around that.
{Wheels.19.4}: Joseph Kang {jsk} Mon, 04 Apr 2005 11:18:35 CDT (1 line)
Or maybe I misunderstood and you're right. Not entirely sure either.
{Wheels.19.5}: Ken Ken {probedubai} Mon, 04 Apr 2005 11:23:02 CDT (10 lines)
Probe stock wheels are 5 x 114.3 with a 40mm offset The ones I found were 5 x 100/120 (not quiet sure) So I dunno wht they plan on doing to make them fit on mine !? Am I bit clearer now !? (Im a newbie, Im tryin 2 give as much info I can :P) Thanx
{Wheels.19.6}: Michael Cerkowski {michael33} Mon, 04 Apr 2005 17:07:11 CDT (4 lines)
I think that "offset" is how far the rim sits away from the wheel once mounted. Nothing involving welding is likely to work. Spacers might. There is already a topic for questions like this.
{Wheels.19.7}: Jil {rabbit} Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:25:17 CDT (24 lines)
Okay, I have info. Ken, the numbers you are describing are the bolt pattern. The mounting holes are in the wrong place to match the studs. You can buy adapters but they're not really recommended for front- wheel-drive cars, because of the strain. There are ways to jury-rig the car so the wheels will go on, but none of them are recommended. Safety should be more important than looks. Are you that stuck on the wheels? Really, you should be looking for wheels that fit your vehicle properly. << I think that "offset" is how far the rim sits away from the wheel once mounted.>> It is. The wrong offset can present a major problem on front-wheel- drive cars, if you're trying to mount a wheel made for rear-wheel on the front. << There is already a topic for questions like this.>> There is, but when someone just joined today and is unfamiliar with the setup and has a question, I think we can cut some slack.
{Wheels.19.8}: Michael Cerkowski {michael33} Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:54:07 CDT (8 lines)
I wasn't trying to sound nasty, just making a quick observation. Maybe you can paste this thread in the existing topic, and delete this one? The biggest problem with having the wrong offset is having the rim rub (or even lock to) the brake caliper. A really short spacer set might be ok if the car isn't being raced, but I'd avoid anything that moves the rim out beyond a few mm.
{Wheels.19.9}: Ken {probedubai} Tue, 05 Apr 2005 01:14:09 CDT (10 lines)
Thanks a lot for info guys. I wasn't so desperate to them(kinda was :P) the problem is that it happened twice that rims I finally chose don't match. << I think that "offset" is how far the rim sits away from the wheel once mounted.>> Can some1 explain this 2 me, pics would be better. Thanx again 4 the effort n time.
{Wheels.19.10}: Michael Cerkowski {michael33} Tue, 05 Apr 2005 04:58:11 CDT (11 lines)
I couldn't find a photo (just a lot of spam, popups and cookies), but i'll try: picture the rim mounted on the hub, which is either part of the brake rotor or is what the rotor mounts on. (The hub is where the wheel mounting studs are located.) Now picture the *back* of the rim, where it is held in place against the hub by the lugnuts. Now picture the brake calipers sitting on top of the hub/rotor, with the inside of the rim jammed right up against them, and possibly even being bent outwards by the bulge of the calipers, instead of not being a little ways out. That's not enough offset. The wheel won't turn, and it may not even bolt on all the way. Or it may turn under no load, but rub against the calipers when cornering.
{Wheels.19.11}: Jack Van Gossen {lowjack} Wed, 06 Apr 2005 19:46:18 CDT (12 lines)
Specific definition of offset is the difference of the hub mounting surface from the centerline of the rim. Positive offset rims are most common on newer vehicles, and pretty much the norm for FWD. IOW - on a 7" wide rim, a vehicle with 2" positive would have 5.5" backspacing. Backspacing can also cause problems. Too much and your tire will rub the inside of the wheelwell, suspension components, brake lines, etc. Too little, and you rub the inside of the fender, or stick out of the fenderwell all together. To put it simply, Jil's approach is best. Find rims that are designed to fit your vehicle. It's way to risky to be messing around with this kind of thing (unless you've got connections to somebody like Chip Foose).
{Wheels.19.12}: Michael Cerkowski {michael33} Wed, 06 Apr 2005 22:31:49 CDT (3 lines)
I think the talk about wleding was to have the rims taken apart and then re-welded in the right configuration, with new centers. I wouldn't bother.
{Wheels.19.13}: Ken Ken {probedubai} Wed, 06 Apr 2005 23:43:10 CDT (13 lines)
The talk wasn't about the rims being welded, it's about about the hub I guess (something 2 do with the car) Anyways I just needed to have some info about what he meant, ans somemore knowledge about cars. As I said, I won't do something that would affect my car, that's why I asked. Usually newbies would tell them in this kinda case 'go ahead'. I'll start hunting for new ones again... :P Thanx a lot guys 4 the help, appreciated it.
{Wheels.19.14}: Jil {rabbit} Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:21:11 CDT (5 lines)
My guess -- because, unfortunately, I've seen it done -- is they remove the wheel studs and weld new ones to the proper bolt pattern. Bad idea. What are you going for, Ken? Bigger wheels, or just fancier ones?
{Wheels.19.15}: heads up, hosts! {elakin} Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:30:24 CST (26 lines)
i'm posting this in multiple forums in an attempt to make the many forum hosts aware of what's going on at the cafe management/board level. board secretary carlos {salsero} has involved himself in a forum-specific matter being heard by the PR WG, and is threatening to take board action to overturn a longstanding forum-specific ban on a participant and to de-host one (or more?) of the forum's hosts. this is a significant development since, up until now, hosts have been given much latitude to run their forums the way they believe is in the best interests of the forum and its participants. grievances were once heard by the ombudsman or PR WG, but now it appears that carlos is changing that protocol in favor of direct board involvement and oversight. given this new development in cafe protocol and what appears to be complete abandonment of the "federated model" that carlos promised to adhere to, i felt it was important to inform all the hosts of the cafe that they will apparently be subject to the board's approval of any and all actions they may take, and could possibly be de-hosted based on the whim or caprice of carlos. those who wish to learn more about this can read the entire thread at {WorkGroup-PR.26.1-}
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The following questions can be asked in the present, rather than the past tense, if interviews are conducted by a skilled social scientist questioning active offenders while offering the interviewees full ethical assurances of anonymity. English constabularies using the Market Reduction Approach employed outside academic consultants to interview offenders in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire83, Operation Radium in Kent84 and the We Don't Buy Crime initiative in West Mercia85. Police officers and other police employees may not be in a position to offer the same assurances of confidentiality.
1. What sentence did you receive for your last theft offense?
2. What kind of things did you steal?
3. From where did you steal?
4. How often did you steal?
5. How did you decide what to steal?
6. Did you know what you were going to do with the items before you stole them?
7. What did you do with what you stole?
8. How did you know to whom/where to sell?
9. Why was it easier to sell to that person/place?
10. How did you learn the best ways to sell stolen goods?
11. Where did you (and others) sell the following types of stolen goods?
12. To how many different people did you sell?
13. For each type of stolen good, how did you sell?
15. Do you think the shopkeepers knew the goods you were selling were stolen?
16. How easy was it to sell each type of stolen goods?
17. Did police ever catch your fence/dealer?
18. Did you ever need to dump goods?
19. How did you know where to take stolen property?
20. How long did it take you to get rid of property?
21. If you had to store/stash goods, where did you do that?
22. How did you transport what you stole?
23. Did you ever swap stolen goods for drugs? Or trade stolen goods for anything else?
24. Did you work alone or with someone else?
25. Did you earn money from selling stolen goods shared with someone?
26. Did anyone ever ask you to steal to order? What sort of property?
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35. How long did it typically take you to sell your stolen goods?
36. Were or are you aware of any markets closing down as a result of police intervention?
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38. Did property-marking deter you from stealing? Were there particular types of marking that deterred you more than others?
39. Did you get a good return for the goods you sold?
40. Did prices for particular goods go up? If so, did that affect what you stole?
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43. Are there any goods that you used to steal, but no longer would? If so, why?
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Following a decade of practice as a visual artist, her current focus is primarily on writing and curating. In 2006, she was awarded a curatorial research residency at the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland, in 2010 she attended the Summer Seminars for Art Curators in Yerevan, Armenia, and in 2011 was a guest of the BAM International Visitor's Programme in Flanders. In 2006, Michelle founded a leading blog on the subject of curating contemporary art, Curating.info, which was featured in the LabforCulture publication, Cultural Bloggers Interviewed. She has written critical essays for C Magazine, Volume, Spacing, CV Photo, Public, Mute, and several online journals on a wide range of subjects in the realm of contemporary culture. Her writing has appeared in anthologies and exhibition catalogues in both Canada and Europe.
Michelle completed her BFA in New Media at Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario in 2000, and in 2006 completed her MA in Visual and Media Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal, earning several scholarships over the course of her academic career. She is a member of IKT (International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art).
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CEO of local nonprofit Keystone Center tenders resignation
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Gary Grappo, chief executive officer and president of The Keystone Center, has resigned.
His resignation became effective April 1. It is unclear when Grappo tendered his resignation to the board of trustees.
"It's really a matter between the board and myself," Grappo said of the timeline regarding his resignation.
The beginning of the year saw big changes in the organization as it formally separated from the Keystone Science School. The science school, which had been part of The Keystone Center since 1976, received approval from The Keystone Center Board of Trustees to separate from the organization to become an independent nonprofit. The school purchased its 23-acre campus and all school operations from The Keystone Center for $2.5 million in February.
Grappo cites personal and professional reasons for resigning from the position.
"On the professional side, the organization had undergone considerable change during my time there, change which I think is universally considered to be very positive for the organization, but ultimately led to an organization that was very different from the one that I joined back in January of 2012," he said. "And so I felt that it was a right time for me to step aside, allow the board to evaluate the current state of the organization and the kind of leadership they want to have going forward."
Board members were said to be unavailable for comment regarding the resignation. However, a news release appeared on the organization's website Friday following an inquiry for information from the Summit Daily News. In the release, board co-chairwoman Dede Hapner stated, "On behalf of the entire board and staff of The Keystone Center, I and my co-chair Glenn Prickett thank Mr. Grappo for his valuable contributions to The Keystone Center. We wish him the very best in his future endeavors."
Requests for information regarding Grappo's salary while he held the position have not yet been answered.
Robert Craig, founder of The Keystone Center, had positive comments regarding Grappo's time in the position.
"I admire Ambassador Grappo very much and I think he did a very good job for the center in the time he was there," he said. "My understanding is he had decided that it was time for him to move on toward other things (and) I think he felt that he'd done some of the things that he had set out to do, such as the separation of the science school and the center, and of course he comes from a diplomatic background, and I don't know what his future plans are. He has not indicated yet, but I hope to help in any way I can as he moves forward."
Robyn Brewer, director of marketing communications at The Keystone Center, referenced Grappo's involvement in the transition with the school and the organization's strategic plan.
"He's been with us a year, he brought a lot to our organization, he helped us through some really significant issues when he was here," she said. "He obviously helped us navigate through the transition with the Keystone Science School to an independent entity. He also set us up with a thorough and robust strategic planning initiative, which really set us up for success today."
Until a successor is chosen, Hapner will act as The Keystone Center's interim president and CEO.
Grappo took the position in January 2012, replacing former CEO Peter Adler. Grappo's background is in diplomatic leadership and foreign policy. His 26-year career with the U.S. State Department included service in Jerusalem as the head of mission under former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Before that, he was the minister counselor for political affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad from 2006-09 and U.S. Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman.
Grappo said that it was The Keystone Center's policy work that drew him to apply for the position at the organization.
"(It's a) great organization; they do wonderful work. They were involved in policy work, which is something I was drawn to," Grappo said. "I had worked in policy previously to coming to Keystone and I wanted to continue in that vein. And it was in a spectacularly wonderful place in Colorado, so I was very attracted to it. I liked the organization quite a bit and it seemed like a very great fit, and it was."
Soon after taking the position, Grappo became involved in preparing and implementing a comprehensive strategic plan for the organization, dealing with development and management of various aspects, including policy, financial management and staff development.
"We were able to prepare a very thorough strategic plan, which was ultimately presented and approved by the board, and there was a fair amount of board engagement in that effort as well," Grappo said. "That would set us down on the path from both a policy perspective as well as some of the other areas that we wanted to address, whether it was the financial management of the organization, the development part of it, and certainly staffing development as well. It was a pretty comprehensive sort of plan that is fairly standard in any business or organization."
The plan was a success, Grappo said, and became integral to guiding the organization's next steps.
"It was, I think, a great start and I think it really galvanized the entire organization, including the board," he said.
Grappo explained that the strategic plan was a chance for The Keystone Center to analyze its strengths and what it needed to do in order to ensure the focus on its mission and the health of the organization. Financial development was an aspect of the plan, seeking out other potential fundraising opportunities.
Separation from the science school wasn't originally part of the strategic plan, Grappo said. "As we proceeded and began to look at the work of the policy folks as well as the science school, the question arose – can we, since we effectively have two missions here, is there a better way to achieve the missions of these organizations, other than keeping them a part of The Keystone Center? … Obviously it had to make financial sense and when we began taking a look at that, the answers were all very positive."
Grappo said he plans to remain in Summit County for the summer. In the future, he may return to foreign policy work, though probably not through the government, he said.
"In the immediate term," he said, "there are some personal matters that I need to take care of with my wife and family, and hopefully a great Colorado summer."
Grappo also praised The Keystone Center for the work that it does and urges the community to learn more about it.
"It really is an extraordinary organization, and I think it's an organization that the people here in the community and certainly the state of Colorado should be proud of in terms of the work that they do addressing really tough problems in our country today and the way that they do it," he said. "It really is a noble mission. They have remarkable people that are carrying this out, very highly motivated to do the work that they do. They do it very well, (are) very committed, so I leave with nothing but high comments for the organization and the people in it and the work that they do."
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COVINGTON, Ga. -- Healthcare conglomerate Baxter International plans to open a manufacturing plant on metro Atlanta's Eastside - a project that could bring about 1,500 jobs.
The plant will be built in the Stanton Springs business park, a 1,600-acre, a master-planned development east of Interstate 285 near Covington and Social Circle.
The Baxter plant is the second big economic development win for Georgia in the past two months. Caterpillar Inc. announced Feb. 17 that it would build a manufacturing plant near Athens, Ga. that would bring at least 1,400 jobs.
RELATED | Caterpillar already posting high-level jobs
ALSO | Atlanta airport still hiring
In nearby Social Circle, the famous Blue Willow Inn was buzzing with the news.
"It's an answer to a prayer," said owner Billie Van Dyke. "Social Circle needs that economy to come in."
The Blue Willow recently filed for bankruptcy and was on the verge of closing down. Owner Billy VanDyke says the opening of a new manufacturing plant provides hope.
"We've had some tight times, but we've never had to close up like some of the other restaurants and businesses did," said VanDyke. "Now we're getting new businesses coming in, so we're excited."
Deerfield, Ill.-based Baxter makes medical devices, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology products. The company, which had revenues of $13.9 billion last year, employs about 19,000 in the United States and has 14 plants including three in Puerto Rico.
The Atlanta plant would be Baxter's third in the Southeast - it also has plants in North Cove, N.C. And Cleveland, Miss.
Baxter's decision to put the plant here is a much-needed win for Georgia's life sciences industry, following a spate of high profile corporate losses.
The Baxter plant is "an incredible step for Atlanta," said Bill Johnston, a life sciences executive who worked at Baxter for nearly two decades.
"It breaks the stranglehold that North Carolina has on pharmaceutical manufacturing," said Johnston, now CEO of Tucker, Ga-based InVasc Therapeuitcs Inc.
Georgia beat out other states for Baxter, including North Carolina, where last fall Atlanta Business Chronicle sister publication Triangle Business Journal reported executives with the life sciences company identified as publicly traded Baxter International toured sites in Granville County, Wake County, and Lee County.
Now there is hope that others in the medical field will locate in the area.
"Maybe it's a vitamin company," said Hunter Hall of the Newton County Chamber of Commerce. "Maybe it's a supplier or producer of like goods who wants to be able to draw from that same work force."
Metro Atlanta's strong portfolio of research institutions, including Emory University, Georgia Tech and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a magnet luring life sciences companies.
Georgia's prominence as a logistics hub and easy accessibility to a major airport is also a lure.
"Atlanta could become a preferred hub for pharmaceutical or vaccine manufacturing that requires air distribution," Johnson said, referring to Seattle-based Dendreon Corp. which picked Atlanta's south side for a cancer treatment manufacturing plant, primarily because of its proximity to the airport.
To have a company of Baxter's stature decide to come to Georgia, underscores the state's reputation as a growing life sciences hub, said David Dodd, who founded Atlanta-based Serologicals Corp. and was a former CEO at Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Companies pick locations where they feel they can be successful in the long run, Dodd said.
"It's not about picking the cheapest place," he said. "Available labor, the ability to train and be able to maintain a strong workforce to get the job done is the No. 1 variable in making location decisions."
Baxter's proposed plant puts Georgia on the map as a player in the life sciences industry, said Mike Cassidy, president of the Georgia Research Alliance
"It's validation of a long term strategy to make the state attractive to the life sciences industry, Cassidy said. "It demonstrates that Georgia is a great place for this industry to do business."
Baxter typically locates plants in right-to-work states and at sites away from major metro areas, Johnston said. The company tries to be the dominant employer in its community and pays on the higher end of the wage scale, Johnson said.
The Atlanta site, about 40 miles from Atlanta, is a "little atypical" of Baxter, Johnston said.
Stanton Springs situated at the junction of Morgan, Newton and Walton counties located on Interstate 20 is is modeled on the Johns Creek project, and is suited for corporate headquarters, light manufacturing, R&D and technology facilities; and distribution. The site, about 40 miles from The University of Georgia, was pitched to Merck in the early 2000s, when the pharmaceutical company was considering Atlanta for a manufacturing plant.
The Baxter project will double as a recruiting tool for other healthcare companies.
"It underscores that there is not only one location in the Southeast that [life sciences] companies need to look at - the Research Triangle Park," Dodd said. "It starts defining better and better Georgia as a place to support bio-manufacturing and life sciences companies."
The Baxter talent will not only created hundreds of jobs, it will lead to an influx of high end talent, including Phds, and managerial talent. A marquee brand such as Baxter will also attract the attention of other life sciences manufacturers, considering expansion or relocation sites.
Pharma jobs are a hot target for state economic developers. Life sciences jobs paid, on average, $63,317 annually in 2007, compared with the statewide average of $42,178 for all industries, according to an industry analysis report. The average salary for pharmaceutical manufacturing was $89,672 annually.
Metro Atlanta's life sciences industry has suffered a spate of notable corporate losses in recent years.
Several local companies, including Solvay, Stiefel Laboratories Inc., AtheroGenics Inc. and Altea Therapeutics Inc. have exited the market because of acquisitions or bankruptcy.
While Atlanta has lost life sciences firms to acquisitions and bankruptcy, the region has a robust industry including established players, such as UCB Inc., and promising firms, such as CardioMEMS Inc.
Georgia has also attracted biotechs from outside the area.
Osmotica Pharmaceutical Corp. confirmed in August plans to invest $20 million in an R&D and manufacturing operation in the former Solvay campus in Marietta.
While Dendreon opened its Atlanta plant, in September the company said it would lay off 117 employees at the plant, as part of a companywide restructuring as it deals with slower-than-expected sales of its Provenge cancer treatment.


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Alan Stern has been fighting for Pluto's planethood ever since the icy body was demoted to "dwarf planet" in 2006.
That year, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) came up with a new definition of "planet": A body that circles the sun without being another object's moon, is large enough to be rounded by its own gravity (but not so big that it undergoes nuclear fusion, like a star) and has "cleared its neighborhood" of most other orbiting bodies.
Since Pluto shares orbital space with many other objects in the Kuiper Belt the ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune it was relegated to the newly created category of dwarf planet.
The rethink was partly a response to the discovery of Eris, by Caltech astronomer Mike Brown. Eris, a rocky world circling the sun far beyond Pluto, was initially thought to be larger than its Kuiper Belt cousin. But new observations of Eris have cast doubt on its size supremacy.
Stern, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., and leader of NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto, strongly disagrees with Pluto's demotion.
In an e-mail interview with SPACE.com, Stern lays out the case for Pluto's planethood and explains why it matters what we call Pluto and other objects in the solar system.
What are your major concerns with the current IAU definition of "planet?"
One problem I have with the IAU definition is that it's sloppy when it says a sufficiently large object has to "clear its orbital zone" to qualify, because none of our solar system's planets orbit in a fully cleared zone. All have some form of asteroids, comets or Kuiper Belt objects passing through their orbital zone.
So the IAU definition leaves its proponents having to argue why they didn't really mean what they wrote, that instead they really meant that zone-clearing is the "ability" to clear a zone in a perfect-world computer simulation. [ POLL: Should Pluto's planet status be revisited? ]
But a larger problem is that so many of its proponents said back in 2006 that the IAU definition was specifically designed to limit the number of planets to a small number. That, in my opinion, is not scientific. It's somewhere between personal preference and political.
And most importantly, I and many other planetary scientists like the almost 400 that signed a petition against the IAU in 2006 have a problem with the IAU definition because the implications of it are just nonsensical.
Here's why. The IAU's "zone-clearing" criteria, when worked out mathematically, means that to qualify as a planet at larger and larger distances from the sun, a body has to have more and more mass than it would in a closer orbit. This is in part because the zones get larger (like distance cubed, or volume) as you go outward; it's also in part because orbital speeds are slower further out, so zone-clearing takes longer.
The end result is that many objects that can clear Mercury's zone can't clear the zone at Earth's orbit (including Mercury, as I recall), and an object that can clear the zone at Earth might or might not be able to clear the zone at Pluto. In fact, Earth the one object I think everyone agrees is a planet is too small to clear Pluto's zone in the age of the solar system, and would not be a planet by the IAU's way of thinking.
So when people say Pluto can't clear its orbital zone, they should be fair and also point out that planet Earth also couldn't clear a zone this far out, so the IAU definition would exclude an Earth and a Mercury, a Venus or a Mars at Pluto's distance.
This distance-dependent planethood criterion produces situations where identical objects don't classify identically at different locations, and results in a ridiculous and chaotic classification scheme that isn't good for anyone not for school kids, not for the public or even for researchers.
You've said that the decision to strip Pluto of its planethood was motivated partly by an unscientific desire to keep planets "special." What did you mean by that?
Last week, you interviewed Mike Brown about planet definitions. Mike once said to me during an NPR interview we did together in 2006, "We can't have 50 planets. My little daughter won't be able to remember all their names."
Well, I have two daughters of my own, and really appreciate a father's love, but this is hardly a scientific rationale. Did we limit the number of stars for memorization convenience when Galileo turned his telescope to the sky and found there weren't any more a countable number of them? Did we limit the number of galaxies when a similar discovery was made about them? Do Earth scientists limit the numbers of mountains or rivers to be named? Do biologists limit the number of species?
In all these cases the answer is no, because science is about accepting new facts, independent of their convenience or inconvenience. And that should be the case with planets, too.
So I responded to Mike on NPR that evening by saying, "Well, if we can't have 50 planets but only eight, so kids can remember their names, then I guess we ought to be going back to eight states, too."
But to answer your question more fully, many proponents of the IAU's planet definition want to limit the number of planets and say so all the time. When I hear that, I think, why would anyone care to keep the number of planets small, except to protect their status as special?
But you know, data is data. In planetary science, we've learned over the past 15 or so years we were wrong our solar system does not have nine or 10 planets as we long thought it had, but more like 900. Moreover, we've learned that most of the planets in our solar system are very different from the first handful we knew about because they are much smaller, though they share virtually all other attributes in common.
It's as if we'd grown up on a desert island with only NBA-player-sized people and then, on learning that the other people of the world are mostly smaller, saying those people aren't really what we want to call human, because that would make us on the home island feel different and less special.
So when it comes to small planets outnumbering big ones (just as small stars outnumber big ones), I say, "Cool, that was unexpected, but bring it on!" After all, reacting to new data and changing one's paradigm to better fit the totality of the facts is what science is all about.
What definition of "planet" do you prefer, and why?
I like to tell audiences that we'd be better off with the "Star Trek" test for planethood than what the IAU adopted.
Whenever a starship on "Star Trek" pulls up to something in space and turns on the viewfinder, the audience and the ship's crew know, within about a second, whether it's a planet, or a star, or another spaceship, or a comet, or a nebula or an asteroid. Whatever. They don't need to know what else is nearby, they don't need to conduct a survey of the solar system and integrate orbits to determine what objects have cleared their zone, they don't even need a Ph.D astronomer to advise them.
They just know by looking. They know, because it's not all that hard to tell a planet when you see one, and they know that it doesn't matter if it's alone or in a flock: if it's big and roundish, "not on fire with fusion," and not a spaceship, it's a planet.
But more rigorously, since a 1991 article where I coined the term "dwarf planet" in analogy to dwarf stars and dwarf galaxies, I've promoted what we now call the Geophysical Planet Definition, or GPD: A planet is any object in space that is massive enough for its self-gravity to create a state of hydrostatic equilibrium, but not so massive that its core can at some point ignite in sustained nuclear fusion.
This simple definition nicely traps planets as objects that are too big to act like rocks (which control their shape by chemical bonds rather than gravity), and [too small to act like] stars (which are big enough to be in hydrostatic equilibrium but which have done or currently do nuclear fusion in their interiors).
And in GPD, nothing else matters doesn't matter where we find it, in what kind of orbit or what it's close to or far from. In fact, that's how we classify most other object types in astronomy based on what it is, not where it is or what orbit it's in.
What do you say to those who argue that Pluto is just a big Kuiper Belt object?
I say they're right! But that doesn't really relate to whether Pluto is a planet or not. Just because Pluto orbits with many other dwarf planets doesn't change what it is, just as whether an object is a mountain or not doesn't depend on whether it's in a group or in isolation.
What we see in the Kuiper Belt is a third class of planets, the dwarf planets, or DPs. Most, like Pluto and Eris, have primarily rocky compositions (like Earth), moons, and polar caps, atmospheres, seasons and other attributes like the larger planets. They're just somewhat smaller.
Back before the Kuiper Belt was discovered, Pluto did look like a misfit that didn't belong with either the terrestrials or the giant planets. Turns out that was exactly right, but now we know why: Pluto looked like a misfit because our technology back then couldn't see that it was just the brightest and easiest to detect of a large new class of planets.
In fact, that's why it's clear Ceres [the largest object in the asteroid belt ] was a planet all along, but was misclassified for a time because we didn't have enough similar examples to recognize dwarf planets as their own category. Today, however, it's clear the DPs outnumber both of the other two planet classes we know of in our solar system the giants and the terrestrials. Which types look to be the misfit now, versus the norm?
Some people seem to be uncomfortable with that fact. I see it as just another step in the Copernican revolution that began by displacing the Earth from the center of the universe.
Do you think astronomers will ever come to a consensus?
I do. I expect that before long, consensus will be that our solar system was good at making planets in very large numbers, and that most of them are faraway dwarfs, rather than the closer big guys that we knew about in childhood.
Then schools will teach that, like the rivers of Earth, there is a huge number of planets in our solar system, and you only need to remember the names of the ones that are nearby or particularly famous.
Does it matter whether we call dwarf planets full-fledged planets or not? Is this just a semantic issue, or does it hit on something more important?
I think it matters. One thing scientists do is to find order among a large number of facts, and one way to do that across fields as diverse as biology, geology, physics and astronomy, is through classification.
Yes, in planetary science we have found our old classification scheme wanting because we've recently discovered a large number of small planets far out in the solar system, as well as hot Jupiters and super-Earths around other stars, and planets with strange new orbits, and planets orbiting pulsars.
I don't think our job as planetary scientists and astronomers is to react to this new data that planets are much more diverse in size, orbit, and location than we knew by saying there's no longer any reason to classify them, and that the word planet has lost all meaning.
I think our job is find a better classification scheme that makes sense in light of the new data. As I said about the "Star Trek" test, it really isn't so hard to do.
And after all, the field is called "planetary science." To say that what a planet is doesn't matter would be to imply that a planetary scientist couldn't explain to someone what the field is about. How would that be a good thing?
- Should Pluto Be a Planet After All? Experts Weigh in
- POLL: Should Pluto's Planet Status Be Revisited?
- Top 10 Extreme Planet Facts
You can follow SPACE.com senior writer Mike Wall on Twitter: @michaeldwall.
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I was delighted recently to find an email in my inbox asking me if I would like to receive a box of Japanese goodies from a new subscription service in the US called Skoshbox.
Skoshbox is a company founded by two close friends from childhood who have lived in both Japan and the US throughout their lives. Raised by Japanese mothers and brought up on Japanese snacks, video games, and comfort food, they noticed a severe lack of variety and accessibility to affordable Japanese items in the US. Out of this they created Skoshbox - a monthly subscription service that will deliver a variety of new and quircky snacks to your doorstep.
They hand pick every item that goes into the box, because it is important to them that each item reflects the Japan they know and love so much.
The subscription service is priced at $12 which includes shipping. At the moment it is available within the US only, but according to their Facebook page, they are working on bringing Skoshbox to the international community as well.
For my readers who live in the US I have a special promo code that you can use at checkout which will entitle you to a FREE mystery snack included in your box. Just type the code TASTYJP05.
The code is valid until July 15th 2013 which is the cut-off date for ordering the first box. (Unfortunately because I live in Australia, my parcel took quite a while to arrive so my readers will have less time to use the code.)
I've looked for information on the website and Facebook page as to why Skoshbox is named that. Where did the name come from? I can't find any info but I can only assume it comes from the Japanese word "sukoshi" - meaning "a little bit" because the parcel that came in the mail was filled with lots of little bits and pieces.
When I opened the box, I noticed that it was very professionally packed. There was a postcard that greeted me, which had all the snacks listed on the other side in English. The white tissue paper wrapped around the snacks was a nice touch and it made it feel like I was getting a gift.
Even though the parcel was quite small, it was filled to the brim with a variety of snacks which gave me the feeling of receiving a lot. I knew all the snacks in the box, they are my husband's childhood favourites.
The one thing I observed though is that if you can't read Japanese, then you wouldn't know what snack is which, just by reading the postcard alone. In my opinion, the postcard needs an image of the snack next to each listing. Otherwise, customers will have to find out purely by a process of elimination.
There was a total of 14 items in the box. 13 of which were edible. When my Japanese husband saw what was in the box he exclaimed "natsukashii" (nostalgic) because these are the snacks he grew up eating, and some of them he still eats now, even though we are in Australia.
My husband and 2 year old son joined me for this review, purely because we all love Japanese snacks and they were hanging around watching me so I had to invite them to join. ;)
We started off with the Senbei (rice cracker) which was soy sauce flavour. There were two crackers in the pack and they are supposed to be "soft" senbei (easy to bite into), but they were quite hard. I thought maybe they were a bit stale. The soy sauce flavour was hard to detect, my husband and I first thought that it was salt or salad flavour because we could only smell the soy sauce. The cracker itself was quite salty. None of us were very big fans of this senbei sadly.
Kaki no Tane
There were two small packs of Kakipi, and my husband and I had one pack each since my son has a nut allergy. We both felt there were too many peanuts in the pack. Usually (and this is just personal preference) we like to eat 2 or 3 hot crackers with one peanut, but each pack seemed to have a high ratio of peanuts to crackers, meaning when we had finished the crackers there were still peanuts left. If we ate the crackers and peanuts together, then the spiciness of the crackers was mellowed out by the peanuts.
Marble Chocolate
The packaging was very cute and my son made a grab for it straight away. We all liked the crispy shell and the chocolate inside had a very strong cocoa flavour. Some of the chocolates had a picture of a cow on the outside so we felt lucky, because they are rare.
The outside of this packet is also very cute and shows pictures of Koala's that may show up in your pack indicating you are "lucky". Unfortunately I got no such characters, or if I did, I couldn't tell because the insides were broken. This happens sometimes and because it came such a long way, it can't be helped. We found that the shell was very crunchy and nice but the chocolate had an odd flavour, like it was old. My son made a swipe for this packet too!
Umaibo Cheese
Umaibo is a long tubular corn snack, similar to what Aussies would know of as a "Cheezel" but sweeter. This was broken into 4 pieces inside the pack but I have found them to be somewhat fragile in the past, so it's no wonder. It's probably not a good snack to send internationally because it is easy to break. The flavour was quite cheesy but it also had a sweetness that Western savoury snacks don't have. We all enjoyed this one!
I have to admit, I am not a fan of seafood, but my husband loves mentaiko. I was not looking forward to trying it but was pleasantly surprised. There wasn't too much seafood smell or flavour and to me this could have been bbq for all I knew. We all liked it but preferred the cheese. My son chomped the last half of the stick all by himself!
Haichu Strawberry
How to split this candy three ways was our difficulty, however we managed and liked it. It was very mini indeed, I would have liked a couple of each flavour in the box. The strawberry flavour was very light. The candy was very chewy and stuck to my teeth.
This was green and white in colour and tasted like rock melon. The flavour was very strong and reminded us what we love about Japan. All three of us wanted more of melon Haichu. It was a very pleasant candy to eat.
Look Chocolate Matcha Azuki
We all like the combination of Matcha (green tea) and Azuki (red bean) so we expected great things from this chocolate. The matcha flavour was strong, rich and quite sweet, but we couldn't taste any azuki which is a real shame. I preferred this chocolate out of the two flavours.
Look Chocolate Matcha Milk
The "milk" inside this chocolate was clear and stringy, unlike the image on the box of a white creamy liquid. However, I could taste a creaminess which I imagined was the milk. The matcha in this chocolate was not as strong as with the azuki which I didn't like but my husband loved. My son devoured both chocolates and seemed to love them both equally...he would have had another box of them if he could!! ;)
Besides Tirol, Chocoball is my husbands favourite snack ever. He loves the combination of peanuts and chocolate. I expected him to love this as it's the original version of chocoball. However he told me that the flavour of this mini pack was different to the normal box of original Chocoball and he thinks that the layer of chocolate is thinner. I liked the crunchiness of the toffee and coating inside, and the flavour of the dark chocolate on the outside, but I too noticed something different but I couldn't work out what it was. The only thing I could say is that these small snacks seem like they come from a share-pack so they could have been modified a little bit for that purpose.
Orange Bubble Gum
Bubble gum is not something I eat a lot of, so I have no real expertise in this area. I am familiar with this gum mainly because I see it for sale at oriental supermarkets in my city. This was my first time trying it, and sadly will be my last. The orange flavour was strong and it burned my tongue. Both sides of my tongue were on fire while eating this and afterwards I had acid indigestion. I can only assume that whatever chemical used in this gum just doesn't agree with me. It is a cheap and nasty addition to Skoshbox and I would recommend they leave it out in future.
Milk Hardcandy
There was only one of these candies so I got to have it to myself. I was glad I did because it was so creamy and tasted very milky. It was really hard so it lasted a long time. I wished there were more of these candies in the box!!
Air-in Eraser
I thought it was kind of strange to put an eraser in a box of candy from Japan. I know that Japan is popular with geeks and they must like using mechanical pens and erasers. But for the rest of us who aren't students, what will we do with an eraser? If it has to be an eraser, I would prefer something more "Japanese" such as one of those cute erasers that look like a bowl of ramen or a sushi roll. Otherwise I would have liked to see a cultural item such as some chocolate in the shape of 5 yen coins or a phone strap, or maybe even a sushi keyring.
I really like the idea of Skoshbox but I thought the contents were somewhat hit and miss. I guess being a seasoned snack reviewer and regular consumer of Japanese snacks, the contents of the box feel a bit "meh" to me, but to someone who is just getting to know Japan, this would be a great introduction.
It's also really good for those who like getting parcels every month, it feels a bit like getting a gift in the mail, especially because it is packaged so beautifully. Skoshbox is the kind of thing I would have liked when I was in high school and just starting to learn Japanese. I feel that it is marketed towards Japanophiles who have an avid interest in everything Japan. My husband said that if he was missing Japanese snacks and he couldn't buy them in his area then he would buy a Skoshbox every month. I guess for Japanese people away from home, this could even help cure homesickness.
On the Skoshbox website you can see what is in each month's box before it is delivered to you. I will be interested to see what comes out each month, and even more so when Skoshbox go international. Who knows? I might even buy one myself. :)
How you can find Skoshbox
- Website: http://skoshbox.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Skoshbox
Here are some other reviews of Skoshbox
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy5JREANS30&feature=share&list=UUAF7DMTeAnZOZvikNygerOA
- http://youtu.be/e9PeEH9-hb0
- http://polishmaniacs.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/skoshbox-june-2013-unboxing-review/
- http://www.subscriptionmaven.com/2013/06/new-subscription-box-skoshbox-review.html
- http://www.ramblingsofasuburbanmom.com/2013/06/june-skoshbox-review/
- http://ayearofboxes.com/2013/06/27/june-box-review-coupon-code-skoshbox/
- http://www.subscriptionboxtalk.com/2013/06/skosh-box-review-and-coupon-code-new.html
- http://www.girlmeetsbox.com/skoshbox-june-review/
- http://ebidebby.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/skoshbox.html
**The Skoshbox reviewed here was shipped to me for free by Skoshbox and reviewed honestly and fairly. At the time of writing Skoshbox do not ship internationally but it seems like this might change in future.
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Skoshbox Review
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Labels: Azuki, Cheese, Chocoball, Haichu, Japanese, Japanese snacks, Kaki no Tane, Koala no March, Look, Marble, Matcha, Matcha Milk, Mentaiko, Senbei, Skoshbox, Subscription, Umaibo
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